I took an all day tactical handgun class Saturday...

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  1. Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee

    Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee Straight Awesome

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    How the heck old are you gramps?
    Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee, Apr 30, 2008
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  2. Man Afraid of his Shoes

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    Most of the shooting was at three yards. About the longest it ever got was 7ish yards.

    Well, I'm a noob at this glasses thing. I don't think I'm quite ready to start jamming things onto my eyeballs. :calli:
    Man Afraid of his Shoes, May 1, 2008
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    Forbin Do you feel fluffy, punk?

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    ^That does take some getting used to!

    But contacts are only if you need correction full time, of course. If you just need glasses for distance or reading, never mind. :)
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  4. Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee

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    Yeah, if you just need to put your glasses on if you're gonna be in a shooting, I stay stick with glases.
    Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee, May 1, 2008
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    Shoes, on thing I have recently heard of from another shooter is bi-focal contact lenses. I have no idea how they work, but he was saying how the bifocals give him a fantastic sight picture.
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  6. Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee

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    Bi focals have two strengths of lenses - a small place you look through for close up, and the rest for normal viewing.

    Old people wear them.

    Like Benjamin Franklin.
    Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee, May 1, 2008
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  7. Man Afraid of his Shoes

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    If I ever DO do contacts, I have to have one eye brown, one eye blue...like David Bowie.
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    Contacts! Not eye glasses.
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    ...how can there be bifocal contacts? It would get painful holding your contact in place while you move your eye to the spot on the contact that gives you the second focal range... no?
    Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee, May 2, 2008
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    Please re-read my first post on this. I said I have no idea how they work, just that the guy got em. Maybe he was full of shit. But all I know is what I was told.
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  11. Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee

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    Oh, gotcha. I just don't see how it could work.
    Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee, May 2, 2008
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    I just got it - he was making a joke. Bi-focals - two eyes, each with a contact lense.
    Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee, May 2, 2008
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  13. Man Afraid of his Shoes

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    No really. They do have bifocal contact lenses.

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    Man Afraid of his Shoes, May 2, 2008
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    That just looks painful.

    If you've ever had your contacts suddenly get dry and then you get some grit in there... at that point you literally want someone to shoot you in the head.
    Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee, May 2, 2008
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